Inactivated-virus vaccines elicit few, if any, infection-blocking antibodies — but might still protect against severe disease.
have shown that a protein-based booster triggers higher numbers of neutralizing antibodies than does a third shot of an inactivated vaccine. Many of these results have not yet been peer reviewed.might not be enough to subdue Omicron, warns Akiko Iwasaki, a viral immunologist at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
Iwasaki and her co-authors studied blood samples from 101 individuals who received two doses of CoronaVac followed by an mRNA booster. Before the boost, the samples showed no detectable Omicron neutralization. Afterwards, 80% of analysed samples showed some Omicron-blocking activity . But the quantities of antibodies that had Omicron-neutralizing potential were not much greater in this group than in a separate population that had received two doses of mRNA vaccine and no booster. The work has not yet been peer reviewed.for recipients of inactivated vaccines. “We were really celebrating how wonderful this strategy is,” she says, “and then — boom! — Omicron hit.” Now, she thinks these people probably need two extra jabs.doi: https://doi.org/10.
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